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UNL gymnast Jim Hartung qualified for each of the six events in the
national individual competition scheduled during the NCAA Gymnastics Meet
April 3-5 in Lincoln. As expected, top-ranked Nebraska also qualified for
the 10-team field.
Gymnasts get NCAA berth
As expected, NCAA defending
champion Nebraska was one of the 10
teams named to participate in the
NCAA Gymnastics Championship set
for April 3-5 at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
Joining the top-ranked Huskers in
the meet will be Big Eight rivals Okla
homa and Iowa State as well as South
ern Connecticut, the only team tb beat
the Huskers in dual action this season.
Three Pac-10 schools, Oregon, UCLA
and Arizona State, also qualified.
Louisiana State, Penn State and Uni
versity of Illinois-Chicago Circle round
out the field.
Minnesota and Houston Baptist were
named as alternates.
Six individuals from each of the
four regions also were selected for the
individual championships, including
Husker all-arounders Jim Hartung and
phil Cahoy. Hartung is to compete in
all six events while Cahoy is to be in the
pommel horse, parallel bars and high
bar.
A year ago Hartung finished third
in the all-around behind Indiana State's
Kurt Thomas and Oklahoma's Bart
Conner. But since Thomas has graduat
ed and Conner is taking a redshirt
year, Husker Gymnastics Coach Francis
Allen said Hartung will be the favorite
to win the all-around.
JIartung's main challengers will 4e
UCLA's Peter Vidmar, Southern Con
necticut's Mario McCutcheon and Iowa
State's Ron Galimore. McCutcheon beat
both Hartung and Cahoy in the dual
meet earlier this year. Galimore finished
sixth in the NCAA all-around last year.
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Baseball team
wins by one
The Husker baseball team defeat
ed Eastern Minnesota, 9-8, Sunday
afternoon in Riverside, Calif.
Nebraska, led by right fielder
Steve Oakley .who finished 44 at the
plate, was down by two runs, 8-6 in
the top of the seventh inning.
The Huskers scored three runs in
the seventh inning that won the
game.
Oakley also had four RBIs, and
hit the winning double.
Pitcher Mike Vojtesak won the
game for the Huskers, replacing
Rick Evans. Vojtesak is now 3-0.
The Huskers, now 164, played
the first round of the Cal-Riverside
tournament Monday evening.
By Pat Beecham
Nebraska diving fans are used to watch
ing Scott Hinrichs dive off a spring board,
but maybe in a couple of years a television
audience will see him dive out of helicop
ters or ten-story buildings.
Hinrichs, the Huskers' lone qualifier
in the national diving meet, said he might
like to be a stunt man someday.
"When I went to OSU a friend and I
used to climb out of the dorm windows
and climb along the edge from room to
room. We used to climb up on water
towers and do handstands and other stuff
like that. My friend had already been in
a couple of movies as a stunt man and I
decided that I might like to try it one of
these days."
Hinrichs transferred to Nebraska from
Oklahoma State and has been a welcomed
addition to the Husker squad, according
to Diving Coach Jeff Huber. Hinrichs
dove for OSU during the first semester
of 1979, but decided to leave because
he said that the program was falling apart.
Southeast champion
Hinrichs was born in Lincoln and
graduated from Lincoln Southeast High
School. He was a member of the Southeast
swim team that won the state champion
ship his senior year by defeating an Omaha
Westside team coached by UNL Swim
Coach Cal Bentz.
Hinrichs said diving decided the state
meet that year, and he feels that is pos
sibly the reason Bentz has stressed diving
a little bit more since coming to Nebraska.
Hinrichs will be going to the NCAA
meet along with" 40 other U.S. divers
featuring Olympic silver medalist Greg
Louganis. Hinrichs said that his goal is
to finish in the top 12 nationally. Accord
ing to Huber that goal is well within reach.
"Scott has got a good chance to finish
in the top 12 at nationals if he does what
he is capable of doing," Huber said. "He's
as hard a worker as anyone and he knows
what he has to do and does it."
Big accomplishment
Huber said the United States has more
good divers than any other country, and
just being one of the 40 to qualify for the
national meet is quite an accomplishment.
Hinrichs said although making it to the
NCAA is the biggest thrill of his athletic
career, it is also probably one of the big
gest thrills for his parents.
"My folks didn't pay much attention
to how I did in high school but started
paying more attention when I got into
college," Hinrichs said. "They came to all
my meets and my dad would keep track
of the score after every dive, so when I
went over to talk to him he would always
be asking me if I wanted to know how I
was doing. I just wanted to get my dives
in and do the best I could and then look
at the scores at the end."
Hinrichs attributed much of his suc
cess to Huber, and Nebraska's many good
divers. He said Huber stresses the basics
for the Husker swimmers. After they have
mastered the basics, he said, they go on to
difficult dives.
Huber knows stuff
He also said Huber is a patient coach
and that divers are willing to listen to him
because they know that he "knows his
stuff."
"At OSU it was just me by myself.
There weren't that many good divers there.
But at Nebraska all seven divers are good
and we help each other out and which
makes it hard not to improve," Hinrichs
said.
Along with diving and his stunts, Hin
richs said he enjoys skateboarding. He
said when he was in Oklahoma, a friend
had a motorized skateboard that they
rode around campus.
"Scott is really a hard worker," Huber
said. "He's usually the first one in the
water and the first one in the weight room.
When people seeing him goof around
it's because he has already gone through his
workout. If he dives like he's capable of
at nationals he should make all-American."
Tough competition is ahead
for Romjue's UNL golfers
By Tad Stryker
There will be no spring break for the
Nebraska Men's golf team this year. Coach
Larry Romjue and his squad will compete
in two of the NCAA's toughest meets when
they travel to Texas for the Morris Williams
Invitational in Austin and tfie Houston All
American tournament on successive week
ends. "If we can just make the cuts at one or
both tournaments, well have had a success
ful trip," said Romjue. "Five of the
nation's top 10 teams will be golfing in the
Morris Williams meet, and the Houston one
will be even tougher," he said. "We just
hope to benefit from the competition and
play well."
The Huskers placed second in their
season opener at Padre Island, Texas last
weekend. Wichita State won with a score
of 1183, while UNL finished with 1194.
"We played real well the first three
rounds and trailed by only two strokes, but
the last day we fell off," Romjue said.
Senior Jim Julian led the UNL golfers,
carding scores of 75, 70, 80, and 73 for a
total of 298; tying for fourth place overall.
Bill Henderson, also a senior, earned 3ixth
with a 299. Other Husker scores were
freshman Mark Maness 301, junior Randy
Sock's 305, junior Knox Jones' 306, and
senior Jeff Klein's 308.
"Wichita had already played in two or
three meets, and we hadn't practiced out
side at all," Romjue said, "but I wasn't too
unhappy with our performance. We show.
ed some potential. Knox had a poor tourn
ament. He's probably our best player-he
worked his way up to our number one spot
last year."
Commenting on the Big Eight golf scene
this year, Romjue said, "Oklahoma State's
the best by far. They'll probably be the
national champs. Colorado should be
favored for secondhand then it'll be a
battle for third, with us, Kansas, Missouri r
and maybe Oklahoma bunched in there."
The Big Eight golf meet will be May 12 and
13 at Lawrence, Kansas.
The Huskers strength appears to be the
consistency of the team from the top man
down to the sixth, the coach said.
"From front to back, we're pretty
even," Romjue said. "We hope our fourth,
fifth, and sixth golfers will continue to do
well. We're going to need good scores from
them."
Women's gym team
may go to nationals
The UNL women's gymnastics team has
received unofficial word that they will be
given an at-large bid to compete in the
NCAA national meet in Baton Rouge, La.
April 4 and 5, according to Coach Judy
Schalk.
The Huskers, who placed second in
their regional last weekend, would be seed
ed 14th in the 16-team field, Schalk said.
Hie official announcement of all teams
in the field will be Wednesday at 2 pjn.
